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Amazon Web Services may still be the behemoth in public cloud, but it will see growth erosion in share as competitive pressure increases, according to a new report by Gartner. Microsoft, Alibaba, and Google all saw higher growth in market share in 2016 than AWS, Gartner said Wednesday.
Though AWS had 44.2 percent of the IaaS public cloud services market share in 2016, Alibaba (126.5 percent) and Google (100 percent) actually saw the highest growth in market share over 2015. Comparatively, Amazon saw its market share increase by 45.9 percent in 2016 over 2015.
While it’s not like Alibaba came out of nowhere, it is notable that July was the first time it appeared on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IaaS. Part of this is because while it’s the dominant player in the Chinese cloud services market, its international footprint has only started to take shape the past couple of years. In 2016, it launched four new data centers in Europe, Australia, the Middle East and Japan.
Gartner said that the worldwide IaaS public cloud market grew 31 percent in 2016 to reach $22.1 billion, up from $16.8 billion in 2015.
“The market for cloud services is growing faster than virtually every other IT market today, with much of this growth coming at the expense of the traditional, noncloud offerings,” Sid Nag, research director at Gartner said in a statement. “The demand for cloud-based IaaS continues on its path of aggressive growth, and the high growth

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September 23, 2013 — VMware made several announcements on Monday, including the appointment of Sanjay Mirhandani to senior vice president and general manager to lead the VMware Asia Pacific & Japan business.

(The Hosting News) – Singapore-based Signetique, a leader in dedicated server and cloud hosting, announced a substantial price cut to a limited stock of quad core dedicated servers.

“Signetique is a pioneer in providing affordable and reliable dedicated server hosting for 6 years now. Our dedicated hosting services are well-received for they represent not just good value but also quality” said Signetique CEO Raymond Tan. “To celebrate this milestone, we are availing a limited supply of quad core servers at up to 38% discount. This is unprecedented.”

“All our dedicated servers sold are backed by the industry-leading priority support service, JumpQ” adds COO Kenneth Tan. “Our customers can therefore be assured of extremely good value and quality when they choose to host their applications or websites with our dedicated hosting service. Dedicated server hosting offers extremely good value for the independent developers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as they offer dependability and affordability.”

According to Signetique, their special offer bundles quad core 2.4 GHz machines with 8GB RAMs, 2 x 1TB hard disks, the new Plesk 11.5 control panel (for 10 domains) and 1Mbps of dedicated bandwidths. The offer price for this bundle is SGD279.00 (USD220.00) per month. The usual price for this bundle was SGD449.00 (USD354.00) per month. Company officials confirmed that this offer is good while stocks last.

Signetique is one of the largest providers of dedicated hosting services. It provides shared, virtual and dedicated hosting services and maintains facilities in Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Taiwan, China and Japan. Customers requiring a one-stop Asia Pacific hosting solution can do so through their Singapore sales office. It pioneered the sub $100 dedicated hosting solution in Singapore and continues to provide cost-effective hosting solutions to its customers. Apart from providing standard dedicated server solutions, Signetique also allows complete customization of its servers that encompasses redundancy, virtualization, high availability, disaster recovery and enterprise email hosting solutions. Signetique’s customer profile ranges from small local businesses to multi-nationals and has been in the business for over 15 years.

(The Hosting News) – Singapore-based Signetique, a leader in dedicated server and cloud hosting, announced a substantial price cut to a limited stock of quad core dedicated servers.

“Signetique is a pioneer in providing affordable and reliable dedicated server hosting for 6 years now. Our dedicated hosting services are well-received for they represent not just good value but also quality” said Signetique CEO Raymond Tan. “To celebrate this milestone, we are availing a limited supply of quad core servers at up to 38% discount. This is unprecedented.”

“All our dedicated servers sold are backed by the industry-leading priority support service, JumpQ” adds COO Kenneth Tan. “Our customers can therefore be assured of extremely good value and quality when they choose to host their applications or websites with our dedicated hosting service. Dedicated server hosting offers extremely good value for the independent developers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as they offer dependability and affordability.”

According to Signetique, their special offer bundles quad core 2.4 GHz machines with 8GB RAMs, 2 x 1TB hard disks, the new Plesk 11.5 control panel (for 10 domains) and 1Mbps of dedicated bandwidths. The offer price for this bundle is SGD279.00 (USD220.00) per month. The usual price for this bundle was SGD449.00 (USD354.00) per month. Company officials confirmed that this offer is good while stocks last.

Signetique is one of the largest providers of dedicated hosting services. It provides shared, virtual and dedicated hosting services and maintains facilities in Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Taiwan, China and Japan. Customers requiring a one-stop Asia Pacific hosting solution can do so through their Singapore sales office. It pioneered the sub $100 dedicated hosting solution in Singapore and continues to provide cost-effective hosting solutions to its customers. Apart from providing standard dedicated server solutions, Signetique also allows complete customization of its servers that encompasses redundancy, virtualization, high availability, disaster recovery and enterprise email hosting solutions. Signetique’s customer profile ranges from small local businesses to multi-nationals and has been in the business for over 15 years.

OTA, a nonprofit organization that works collaboratively with industry leaders to enhance online trust, completed comprehensive audits analyzing more than 750 domains and privacy policies, approximately 10,000 web pages and more than 500 million emails for this report. The composite analysis included over a dozen attributes focusing on 1) site & server security, 2) domain, brand, email and consumer protection, and 3) privacy policy and practices. In addition to the in-depth analysis of their web sites, Domain Name Systems (DNS), outbound emails, and public records were analyzed for recent data breach incidents and FTC settlements. Key sectors audited include the Internet Retailer 500, FDIC 100, Top 50 Social Sites as well as OTA members.

“Consumers are trading billions of pieces of personal data in exchange for desired services. They rely on the integrity of the businesses collecting and storing this information to protect them,” said Craig Spiezle, president and executive director of the Online Trust Alliance. “We are very pleased with the voluntary level of adoption many consumer-facing websites implemented this year that went above and beyond baseline compliance.”

“GlobalSign is honored to be recognized for our leadership and security solutions by such a respected organization as OTA for the third year,” said Steve Waite, CEO GlobalSign Americas . “As a company we strive to help drive industry best practices so that organizations of all sizes may better protect themselves from the ever-evolving advanced persistent threats that have become all too common in today’s security landscape. We recently introduced our SSL Configuration Checker to help sites identify the strengths and weaknesses of their SSL configuration and learn the steps that must be taken to remediate any issues, allowing them to better secure their network.”

Nearly a third of the companies reviewed made the Honor Roll, including GlobalSign. The report indicates that company size and/or sales are not true measures of the level of security and privacy a company implements. “All companies are equally evaluated by the same criterion regardless of size. We have seen large e-retailers with significant sales fail to make the Honor Roll; conversely we have seen small to mid-size companies taking top grades,” said Spiezle.

Started in 2005 as an effort to drive adoption of best practices, the objectives of the Honor Roll are to: 1) Recognize leadership and commitment to best practices which aid in the protection of online trust and confidence in online services, 2) Enable businesses to enhance their security, data protection and privacy practices, 3) Move from compliance to stewardship, demonstrating support of meaningful self-regulation, and 4) Promote security & privacy as part of a company’s brand promise and value proposition.

Being named to the 2013 Honor Roll is a significant achievement considering the large number of companies that received failing marks for inadequate domain and consumer protection (22%), insecure websites (11%), and inadequate privacy policies or data collection practices (35%).

“Security challenges continue to grow in complexity with enterprise adoption of the cloud and the proliferation of BYOD,” said Waite. “As a result, businesses are struggling to incorporate industry best practices and implement the latest security solutions that protect their brand, customers and reputations. We admire OTA’s work in advancing online trust through education and the advancement of best security practices, promoting a safer Internet for organizations and end users alike.”

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) is a member-based, non-profit representing the global internet ecosystem – including the public and private sectors. OTA’s mission is to develop and advocate best practices and public policy which mitigate emerging privacy and security threats while enhancing online trust, innovation and the vitality of the digital economy. OTA is committed to the protection of critical infrastructure, balanced legislation and data protection through the promotion of best practices, benchmark reporting, and self-regulation. For more information, visit: https://otalliance.org

About GMO GlobalSign

GlobalSign has been a trust service provider since 1996. Its focus has been, and always will be, on providing convenient and highly productive PKI solutions for organizations of all sizes. Its core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of authenticated customers to conduct SSL secured transactions, data transfer, distribution of tamper-proof code, and protection of online identities for secure email and access control. Vision and commitment to innovation led to GlobalSign being recognized by Frost & Sullivan for the 2011 Product Line Strategy Award. The company has local offices in the US, Europe and throughout Asia. For the latest news on GlobalSign visithttp://www.globalsign.com or follow GlobalSign on Twitter (@globalsign).

GMO Internet Group

GMO Internet Group is a comprehensive provider of industry-leading Internet solutions including domain name registration, cloud-based and traditional hosting, ecommerce, security, and payment processing services that each hold the top share of their respective markets in Japan. Other key business areas for the Group include online securities/FX trading, Internet advertising, search engine marketing and online research. In 2011, a new Social Media & Smartphone Platform segment was established bringing together group initiatives in social apps development, daily deals and Android app distribution. GMO Internet, Inc. is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. For more information, please visit http://www.gmo.jp/en.